87 results about "Layout engine" patented technology

A system and methods for facilitating adaptive grid-based document layout. More particularly, the present invention features a new approach to adaptive grid-based document layout that utilizes a set of adaptive templates that are configurable in a range of different pages sizes and viewing conditions. The templates include various element types and constraint-based relationships that define the layout of elements with reference to viewing conditions under which the document content will be displayed and that define other content properties. Through a layout engine and paginator, the present invention determines a desirable sequence of templates to use for adapting document content. Additionally, the present invention provides a template authoring tool and user interface for interactively drawing and arranging layout elements within an adaptive template.

Systems and methods for hardware accelerated presentation of web pages on mobile computing devices are presented. A plurality of web pages may be received by a computing device capable of processing and displaying web pages using layout engines, hardware accelerated graphics application programming interfaces (APIs). Upon receipt of the web pages, the web pages may be divided into a plurality of rendering layers, based upon stylesheets of the web pages. An algorithm walks through rendering layers so as to select a plurality of layers that may receive compositing layers so as to take advantage of hardware acceleration when rendered. The web pages may be subsequently presented on a display of the mobile computing devices using remaining rendering layers and compositing layers. In this manner, visual representation of web content remains intact even when content which may not have been originally designed for use with layout engine may be displayed.

A web crawler system used for picking up webpage data is prepared as providing data pick-up task to the second component and receiving execution result of data pick-up task from the second component by the first component, communicating with webpage server to obtain webpage data and operating DOM model to pick up data as well as describing picked up data then sending picked up data and its description to the first component by the second one.

A system and methods for facilitating adaptive grid-based document layout. More particularly, the present invention features a new approach to adaptive grid-based document layout that utilizes a set of adaptive templates that are configurable in a range of different pages sizes and viewing conditions. The templates include various element types and constraint-based relationships that define the layout of elements with reference to viewing conditions under which the document content will be displayed and that define other content properties. Through a layout engine and paginator, the present invention determines a desirable sequence of templates to use for adapting document content. Additionally, the present invention provides a template authoring tool and user interface for interactively drawing and arranging layout elements within an adaptive template.

A method and apparatus for presenting a variety of content from a multitude of sources broadcast from a head end server to a client device. The broadcast content comprises HTML input from broadcast, cache, the internet or other sources is processed by a lay out engine for image positioning to avoid overlapping and shaped for appearance on a client device. The image is transferred to a client device in a client compatible code for presentation to a user on a client device.

A system and method for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images, to even such things as stylistic conventions. The specific content is selected and formatted dynamically, on the fly, by a layout engine in order to best adapt to a given viewing situation. A user interface for authoring and editing such manifold content is disclosed.

A system and method for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images, to even such things as stylistic conventions. The specific content is selected and formatted dynamically, on the fly, by a layout engine in order to best adapt to a given viewing situation. A user interface for authoring and editing such manifold content is disclosed.

A method is disclosed to generate, while preserving text, image, transactional and embedded presentation constraint information, a minimum set of simplified and navigable web contents from a single web document that is oversized for targeted smaller devices. The method includes a parser, a content tree builder, a document tree builder, a document simplifier, a virtual layout engine, a document partitioner, a content scalar and a markup generator. The parser generates markup and data tags from an HTML source document. The builder constructs a content tree. The simplifier transforms the document tree into an intermediate one defined by a subset of XHTML tags and attributes. Layout constraints, including size, area, placement order, and column / row relationships, are calculated for partitioning and scaling the document tree into sub document trees with assigned navigation order and hierarchical hyperlinks. A simplified HTML document is then generated with the markup generator.

A user interface for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images, to even such things as stylistic conventions. The specific content is selected and formatted dynamically, on the fly, by a layout engine in order to best adapt to a given viewing situation. A user interface for authoring and editing such manifold content is disclosed.

The invention discloses a report printing method and a report printing system based on an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) template. The related method comprises the following steps: creating an HTML template file according to a presentation requirement of a report, wherein a template language is embedded into the HTML template file, and the HTML template file contains a template file and a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file used for storing a display style and configuration information; embedding a dynamic content part in the report into the template file in a variable form according to a template language rule to form the template file; acquiring dynamic data needed by the generation of the report; replacing the dynamic data with corresponding variables by adopting a mapping dictionary to generate a standard HTML file; rendering the standard HTML file by utilizing a layout engine to generate the corresponding report; outputting the report according to the configuration information in the CSS file, and printing the report. According to the method and the system disclosed by the invention, a template-based dynamic printing function can be achieved, and the development cost and the post-maintenance cost are reduced.

A system for providing inline web previews with dynamic aspect ratios. The system includes an automatic information layout engine to dynamically render a preview of web content located at one or more uniform resource locators contained in a message. The web content previews may be tailored to the display configuration of the device showing the web preview. The system may select an appropriate layout for rendering the web content preview based on one or more properties, such as size, resolution, or aspect ratio, of the display each time the web preview is displayed. Web content previews may be dynamically generated or updated as messages are composed, received, or displayed allowing senders and recipients to see the web content preview in a suitable layout.

The invention discloses a system and a method for resolving a digital television interaction service markup language. The system mainly comprises a communication management module, a label resolving module, a Dom module, a Render module and a layout management module. The invention also discloses the method for resolving the digital television interaction service markup language. The method mainly comprises the following steps of: acquiring corresponding website resource information flows; identifying label information in network resource information; resolving the acquired network resource information into label flows, marking special labels for the digital television interaction service markup language, and generating a Dom tree through a Dom Builder according a legal hypertext markup language (html) rule; and transmitting the Dom three to a Layout Engine for performing layout, constructing a Render tree on the constructed DOM tree so as to realize webpage rendering, and adding node position coordinates and color type setting information. According to the system and the method, not only can the resolving efficiency of a set top box browser be improved effectively, but also the digital television interaction service markup language can be supported completely.

A record management system is provided for generating a multi-dimensional view for different measures. A set of records is retrieved in response to a set of queries. The records include dimension values and measure values, which are associated with the measures. The set of records is maintained in a master table. The record management system generates a record structure foundation, including a query map and a master table index. The record management system then employs the record structure foundation to generate a multi-dimensional layout mapping for the measures that are to be represented in the view. The record structure foundation and measure values in the master table are used to convert the layout mapping into the desired multi-dimensional view. The record management system includes data storage units for implementing the master table, query map, master table index, and layout mapping. These data storage units are coupled to a set of processing engines, which include a control engine, query engine, index engine, and layout engine that provide for performing operations that result in the generation of a multi-dimensional view.

A method and a system are for dynamically generating user interfaces for an application, independently of resolution and platform. In this case, a configuration file is read in and interpreted. A layout engine generates the user interface by accessing a mapping which assigns a respective control event to an event handler.